A federal jury took barely five hours to reach a verdict in the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of an aide to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
The conviction of Timothy Mapes today represented more dismantling of Madigan’s once-powerful political machine that ran Springfield with an iron fist for decades.
Here to break down the verdict is WBEZ’s Dave McKinney, who covered Madigan in Springfield and was at the Dirksen Federal Building on Thursday.
